Sentence examples for were we from inspiring English sources

"were we" is a correct part of a sentence in written English, and is typically used in the past tense to ask a question
Example: "Were we ever going to finish this project?"

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were we

pronoun

The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed).

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Why were we here?

Why were we happy?

Were we arguing?

Were we "broken"?

Why were we searching?

Scared, were we? Perhaps.

But were we wrong?

Why were we killable?

Why were we there?

Were we wrong?

Where were we?

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